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Old 04-09-10, 12:39 AM
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Default The last shots of my car looking decent

My car got in a fairly bad accident a month or two back, and with my priorities being on getting my SC ready for the upcoming drifting season, it's basically going to be looking boring for a while until I splurge on some cosmetic **** and paint.

Anyways, I found some old shots on my harddrive that I never edited/posted, thought I'd throw them up.

















And one of the SC for good measure.

Old 04-09-10, 01:12 AM
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Nice shots, both cars are amazing!
Old 04-09-10, 01:14 AM
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Must be nice so splurge!
Old 04-09-10, 06:55 AM
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your is300 has always been one of the best IMO.....hands down the best red one i've seen
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Clean, but what's up with the exhausts on both cars? lol Looks out of place.
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Damn AJ sorry to hear about the accident. How you were OK. The car looks great. Weren't you in a shoot for an article a while back? Did it ever come out.
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Originally Posted by sway162
Clean, but what's up with the exhausts on both cars? lol Looks out of place.
??? The IS has an Espelir exhaust, the SC has some random exhaust but I keep the silencer in because the car draws enough attention as it is.

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Damn AJ sorry to hear about the accident. How you were OK. The car looks great. Weren't you in a shoot for an article a while back? Did it ever come out.
These are actually the shots from it... We were supposed to do have a Modified feature of all the cars, but we realized that there was no point in attempting a group feature because at least one of our cars is always down at a time.

And yeah, I'm fine. The accident wasn't bad, I just have a somewhat ****ty record with insurance, and with the amount that they wanted to raise my payments if I filed a claim for it I would have paid to fix the car in a year and a half, so I decided to fix it myself.
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Originally Posted by ill roller
??? The IS has an Espelir exhaust, the SC has some random exhaust but I keep the silencer in because the car draws enough attention as it is.
Oh okay, right on. It just sticks out a bunch and to me looks odd but if that's your style then that's your style. Car as a whole looks clean anyway.
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your ride will always be sick A.J! glad ur okay bro, sucks about insurance!
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great pictures.. they all look great
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Both cars look great...sorry to hear about the damage to the IS.

Any pics of the aftermath?
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sucks to hear about your accident.. but nice 1IS
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Originally Posted by sway162
Oh okay, right on. It just sticks out a bunch and to me looks odd but if that's your style then that's your style. Car as a whole looks clean anyway.
doesn't stick out enough as far as I'm concerned

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Both cars look great...sorry to hear about the damage to the IS.

Any pics of the aftermath?
Nope, didn't want to have any pictures to look at... Here's how it looks now, still on winter spares because I bent a control arm and can't fit the AMEs with the camber it's giving me.



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your ride will always be sick A.J! glad ur okay bro, sucks about insurance!
Yeah, it happens... It was slow speed, so I'm fine. But my insurance company is probably getting tired of me squeezing money for parts out of them when people hit me and stuff, haha.
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Sick pics! I know when you get more money, the IS will have another chapter..
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damn, it used to look hawt! I know you'll build it up even better though =)


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